This week, Benjamin spent the time of the show discussing online privacy and how the face of the world is changing. For instance, he spoke with Karina Carretero from Norton (www.norton.com) about various safety and privacy tips For instance, never share your password with anyone, no matter who they are, including your best friends or your “significant other”. Even if its someone you absolutely trust, they may accidentally let it slip to someone else. For the rest of the interview, tune in to the audio below.

When Benny came on, they talked about privacy issues on Facebook (www.facebook.com). The site recently updated their privacy standards, with different standard settings, as well as the option to customize your own. Make sure you never post sensitive information, like your address, on facebook, where it can be reached by anyone, and be sure t know who can see what parts of your profile.

In an online social networking site where users create avatars to live in a hotel where they can socialize with friends, cyber thieves are stealing virtual property. By stealing virtual property which is bought for real cash, the thieves have created quite a little scam. Fortunately, the Finnish police are looking into the matter, but this is a strong reminder to keep your passwords under close protection.

As a computer tip, Benjamin told us that most users don’t know the real speed of their internet, or even the advertised speed of it for that matter. Even less know the information on their mobile broadband. However, there is a way to fix this. Www.speedtest.net  allows you to test the atual speed of your internet.

Benjamin also talked about Nexicon, and one of their more questionable practices. It seems that they send out letters and emails which vaguely hint at legal action to people they suspect of illegal downloading. However, they never seem to really sue anyone, merely scare them a little. If they offer to pay up, then the company gets money, and if they don’t, they simply move onto the next target. Make sure you know where emails come from, and most of all, don’t illegally download things, just to make sure you can never be actually accused of anything like this.

He also talked about in-flight internet. It comes at a bit of a price – like anything on a place – but it is pretty good service. However, none of it is controlled at all. At any time you could accidentally wander into a vulgar site, hardly ideal for a family vacation. Benjamin hopes that one day controls will be put on the wi-fi to prevent this.

Additionally, he spoke about wi-fi security and WPA. WPA2, the most recent version of security-enabled wi-fi, has yet to be broken. However, both WPA nd WEP have been broken, so it is important to be on WPA2. Using an old WPA router will also limit your range and speed, so be sure to upgrade.

In other news, 2,000 iPads have now been sold, and iPad usage continues to grow weekly.

This week, Carlos asked recovering deleted files, and Lucy asked about the security of emails.